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Three ways to watch the solar eclipse safely without glasses - Published With some online orders not able to arrive until the end of the week and shops running out of stock, it may be too late to buy eclipse glasses in time for Wednesday. But you can still safely watch the specta

In an unusually blunt assessment of China’s economic prospects, a leading Chinese economist has refuted the popular market theory that the current slump is the result of a “K-shaped” economy — with some sectors like EVs and AI thriving and others declining — arguing that the core

Global warming is leading to more extremely hot weather. There is perhaps no more obvious consequence of climate change. But changing how we analyze this problem can still help scientists think about it in a different way that may yield surprises. Generally, studies on heat extre

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 million bounty for a working general proof of the hypothesis, which remains uncl

Baby products company Frida is expanding into a line of personal care products for kids ages 6 to 11 that will be sold in Walmart and on Amazon, the company told CNBC exclusively. CEO Chelsea Hirschhorn said the launch marks the next natural step for the company, which has seen i

Apple is seemingly developing an iOS feature that can verify when a photograph was taken using an iPhone camera. 9to5Mac reports that the iOS 27 beta 5 includes code references for an “Apple Reference Image” system that can embed provenance metadata into iPhone photographs at the

Halt and Catch Fire, created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers. The IBM PC was unveiled 45 years ago this week. It revolutionized home computing — the basic architecture is still in use in most PCs — but never made the company much money: It was immediately revers

Artificial Intelligence How ONESTRUCTION built the Ishigaki-IDS foundation model with AWS GenAIIC This post was co-written by ONESTRUCTION, Inc. and Amazon Web Services Japan G.K. as part of GENIAC (Generative AI Accelerator Challenge) Phase 3, with technical advisory from the AW

Episode details Available for over a year Today, the Washington Post is reporting a secret plane swap, which took place as President Trump was leaving the Nato summit in Turkey last month. Adam is joined onstage at the Edinburgh Fringe by Caitriona Perry and James Cook. They disc

Manus said Tuesday it will "soon resume operating as an independent company," after Chinese regulators in April demanded Meta unwind its $2 billion acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup. Last December, Meta announced it acquired Manus, a developer of general purpose

Manus said Tuesday it will "soon resume operating as an independent company," after Chinese regulators in April demanded Meta unwind its $2 billion acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup. Last December, Meta announced it acquired Manus, a developer of general purpose

Artificial Intelligence How Pixieset achieved 35% AI feature adoption by solving the right problem with Amazon Bedrock This post is co-written with Ry Rainey and Graham Gibson from Pixieset. Photographers and artists are among the most skeptical audiences for generative AI. They

Artificial Intelligence First Orion accelerates QA automation using Amazon Nova Act This post is co-written with Mark Himelfarb and Garrett Wilkerson from First Orion. First Orion’s engineering teams were shipping faster than quality assurance (QA) could test, until Amazon Nova A

In 2018, 20,000 Google employees worldwide made headlines when they staged a walkout to protest how the company had handled sexual misconduct allegations against key corporate executives, among other grievances. One of the organizers was Claire Stapleton, a communications special

Joby Aviation reached an agreement to acquire Resonant Sciences for $500 million in cash and stock, according to a regulatory filing posted Tuesday. This is the electric air taxi developer’s latest move to push deeper into the defense sector. Ohio-based Resonant Sciences, which m

A coup for Bezos and a windfall for FSG - where does deal leave Liverpool? - Published The fourth-richest man in the world is trying to buy a stake in your club. Surely that has to be good news? Yet Liverpool fans, who still bear the scars of the Tom Hicks and George Gillette era

Looker’s semantic layer governs Gemini Enterprise data for user trust Tarunima Tripathi Product Manager For organizations deploying AI agents at scale, there’s often a critical divide between structured and unstructured data. While large language models (LLMs) excel at parsing te

PQC in Plaintext: Google Cloud’s post-quantum cryptography roadmap Jai Haridas VP/GM, Regulated and Sovereign Cloud Michael Bachman VP/GM, Cloud Foundations Securing infrastructure and services against a future cryptographically-relevant quantum computer has been a goal for Googl

Accelerate PostgreSQL migrations using Gemini in Database Migration Service Tanya Sharma Strategic Cloud Engineer, Google Cloud Imagine this scenario: Your team decides to migrate a core application from an existing commercial database like Oracle or SQL Server to open source Pos

Dive Brief: - Signet Jewelers announced appointments for its Zales, Banter and Blue Nile brands, according to a Tuesday press release by the company. - Jamie Cygielman has been named president of Zales and Banter, effective Aug. 24. She most recently was global head of dolls at M

Artificial Intelligence Deploying Anthropic Claude apps gateway for AWS for enterprise workloads AI administrators deploying Claude Code and Claude Desktop across their workforce need centralized controls over authentication, model access, cost attribution, and spend enforcement.

Dive Brief: - On’s second quarter net sales grew 13.5% year over year to 850.3 million Swiss francs (about $1.05 billion at press time) or by 21.6% on a constant currency basis, according to a Tuesday press release. That's a miss from analyst’s expectations of growth in the mid-2

Saks Global’s bankruptcy this year has been a boon to Simon Property Group, which has already begun to benefit from the luxury retailer’s Chapter 11-related store closures. The upscale department store retailer exited bankruptcy in June as Exemplar Luxury Group. In May, 1 million

Target announced it has appointed its first ever chief artificial intelligence officer on Tuesday in the retailer's latest bet to capitalize on the AI boom. The company named Chandhu Nair as its chief AI officer and senior vice president and also announced Purvi Shah as the compa

An unidentified passenger allegedly created a fake Wi-Fi network on a Delta flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta on Monday, prompting pilots to alert air traffic control, according to the airline and public broadcasts from the plane. “[The] safety of flight was never in question and

Adding to the ongoing regulatory scrutiny, the Food Safety Division of Karnataka’s Food Safety and Drug Administration Department has sealed a major Zepto warehouse in Bengaluru’s Hoskote. Officials conducted a special inspection drive on the quick commerce major’s facility under

Logistics unicorn Porter posted a net profit of ₹229 Cr in the financial year ended March 31, 2026 (FY26), a 314% jump from ₹55.3 Cr reported in the year-ago period, driven to sharp topline growth. During the fiscal year, the startup’s operating revenue increased 54% to ₹6,650 Cr

The Scoop When Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan was getting ready last week to announce a $15 billion sale of stock, he called his biggest investor: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The government decided not to participate in the new stock sale, Intel’s first since 1971, which will fun

The most downloaded mobile game last year has just landed on Apple’s subscription gaming service, Apple Arcade. On Tuesday, Apple announced the addition of Block Blast!+, an ad-free version of the popular puzzle game that has around 725 million lifetime installs, according to app

Building a company is hard. But building one that also designs, manufactures, and delivers hardware at scale, from a factory floor, with supply chain concerns galore is another order of difficulty. And Rivian’s CEO RJ Scaringe is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to detail that

The U.S. Treasury Department and IRS proposed regulations this week on how employers and employees can fund Trump Accounts, the new tax-deferred investing option for children. The proposed regulations outline how certain employer contributions to Trump Accounts may be excluded fr

The Federal Communications Commission has been shorthanded throughout President Trump’s second term, but it’s about to get a new commissioner. Unsurprisingly, Trump is breaking a historical norm with a nomination that would give Republicans a 3-1 advantage on the FCC. Historicall

The real-time flight tracker FlightAware is suing the prediction market Kalshi for allegedly using its data to host gambling markets. Kalshi started letting users bet on the number of flights canceled in the U.S., or at a given airport, about a month ago. According to FlightAware

Volta has emerged from stealth with a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform designed to combine capital formation, powered land, data center development, GPU compute, software, and operations under one organization. The company is targeting a financing gap in the AI in

Ahead of the commencement of the bidding for its public issue tomorrow (August 12), IPO-bound logistics major Shiprocket has raised ₹727.4 Cr from anchor investors. The startup allotted 7.5 Cr equity shares to anchor investors at a price of ₹97 per share, the upper band of its pr

Solar eclipse 2026 weather forecast – where and when will the best view be? - Published One of the most spectacular solar eclipses the UK has seen for decades is taking place on Wednesday 12 August. From around 18:00 BST, the Moon will begin moving across the face of the Sun, cre

Every new generation of accelerated computing demands more from the infrastructure underneath it — more compute performance, higher rack density and more efficient, scalable power distribution. The bottleneck isn’t just wattage. It’s how power gets from the grid to the GPU. In tr

In the fusion power world, most of the attention gets lavished on the reactors themselves, where atoms fuse to unleash enormous amounts of energy. But a fusion reactor can’t run for long without a lot of other equipment, and building a fusion reactor is expensive enough on its ow

In a bid to boost EV adoption in the country, the central government has increased the total outlay of the PM Electric Drive Revolution in Innovative Vehicle Enhancement (PM E-DRIVE) scheme to ₹11,900 Cr. The revised notification, issued by the Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI)

Monthly Outlook - Published Scotland and Northern Ireland will be wet at times through the rest of this week. Heat across much of England and parts of Wales will ease by the weekend, with a more unsettled and less warm period expected next week. By late August, high pressure domi